chorus: don?t want a life of lies and pretence   don?t want to play attack and defence   just want my own life. i want to be free   so you can be you, and i can be me.      respectable businessmen smart and secure   eat the fat of the land that they robbed from the poor   the butcher is smiling as he brings down his knife   as he cuts up the meat, he thinks of his wife   as eminent psychiatrists suffer paranoid fits   the ones they call mad have to pick up the bits   the preacher speaks calmly, says it?s love that we lack   while his imaginary dagger is held at our back.      chorus      in bed you?re the master or mistress, who cares?   abusing each other as you work out your fears   go climb a mountain, go fuck a scout   avoidance of self is what it?s about   pretence and illusion to avoid who you are   don?t work on yourself, just polish the car   switch on the telly afraid you might find   that as well as a body you?ve also a mind   cheap glossy surface to cover the lie   cheap easy answers to the what, where, and why   media drivel, yet you still watch the screen   life ain?t for real, it?s a magazine   conned from the start but hang onto the lies   you?re a slave to the cathode ray paradise   you don?t want the world, you just want the pics   media junkies, you?d die for a fix.      chorus      so you say you?ll reject it, well that?s maybe a start   but it?s so fucking easy to act out a part   you say you?ll reject it, but still toe the line   conning yourself that you?re doing just fine   anarchy, freedom, more games to play?   fight war, not wars? well it?s something to say   slogans and badges worn without thought   instant identities so cheaply bought   well freedom ain?t product, it isn't? just fun   if you?re looking for peace your work?s just begun   fighting oppression, aggression and hate   fighting warmongers before it?s too late   we?ve got to fight back to show that we care   for so many years we?ve been silence by fear   our lives have been ruined by liars and fools   the powerful and greedy who bind us with rules   politicians and preachers who bind us with laws   who have stolen our peace and given us wars   they?ve used us as means to their own violent ends   turned us against each other, made foes out of friends   they?ve distorted, perverted, polluted our lives   brainwashed the world with their sordid beliefs   they seek to possess, control and corrupt   if it?s freedom we?re after, they?ve got to be stopped.